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by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Profound differences in theory are never gratuitous or invented. They grow out of conflicting elements in a genuine problem--a problem which is genuine just because the elements, taken as they stand, are conflicting. Any significant problem involves conditions that for the moment contradict each other....
Moral Principles in Education and My Pedagogic Creed by John Dewey
With a Critical Introduction by Patricia H. Hinchey
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Contemporary political and socioeconomic conditions largely characterized by corruption and inequity have added new urgency to recurring calls for reorienting American public schools to their historic purpose: educating a citizenry both equipped and motivated to serve as the ultimate guardians of...
A Glorious Revolution for Youth and Communities
Service-Learning and Model Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A Glorious Revolution integrates the ideas of service-learning, positive youth development, and model communities into a book with a comprehensive message about making communities more democratic. Specifically, the book argues that through service-learning an educator can teach higher-order thinking,...
Education to Better Their World
Unleashing the Power of 21st-Century Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his most visionary book, internationally renowned educator Marc Prensky presents a compelling alternative to how and what we teach our children. Drawing on emerging world trends, he elaborates a comprehensive vision for K–12 education that includes new goals, new means, a new curriculum, a new...
by Nel Noddings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After a decade of educational reforms, The Challenge to Care in Schools is even more relevant now than when it was first published. In her new Introduction, Nel Noddings revisits her seminal book and places care as central to current debates on standardization, accountability, privatization, and...
Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning
The Primacy of Dispositions
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth.
It offers...
by Louis Mazzullo
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Our current educational initiatives, NCLB and "Race to the Top", are competitive models that reward victory and punish defeat. In order to win the "Race to the Top" we have to hope or plan that our fellow students and teachers as well as our neighboring states and schools, will...
by Dennis Shirley, Elizabeth A. MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This new and expanded edition of the bestselling The Mindful Teacher provides educators everywhere with practical ideas for improving teaching and learning. Dennis Shirley and Elizabeth MacDonald have created “Mindful Teacher” seminars that enable teachers to focus their craft so that students...
I Got Schooled
The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In this vital book, the famed filmmaker tells how his passion for education reform led him to learn that there are five tested, indispensable keys to transforming America’s underperforming schools.
Famed director M. Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education. The foundation...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Career Development in the Schools describes a dynamic process that continues to evolve in its rationale and practice. In many schools and in a variety of scholarly writings, the status of career development is controversial. Some observers assert that career development should be seen as a byproduct...
Whats Race Got To Do With It?
How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Within critical discussions of school reform, researchers and activists are often of two camps. Some focus their analyses on neoliberal economic agendas, while others center on racial inequality. These analyses often happen in isolation, continuing to divide those concerned with educational justice...
Practical Classroom Management for Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Teachers
Case Studies, Activities, Suitable for Novice and Experienced Teachers from All Areas of Certification
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Cathy Stockton and David E. Gullatt used their combined 75 years in education to create Practical Classroom Management for Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Teachers.----Their book identifies theorists and educators who are noted for their research in psychology or education to assist teachers in creating...
Classroom Management Training Handbook
Cued to Preventing Discipline Problems, K-12
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The Classroom Management Training Handbook is cued to the textbook Preventing Classroom Disruptive Behavior, Grades K-12, Fourth Edition. It uniquely provides private, confidential self-training for a troubled teacher, or it can be used by professors of education, teacher-trainers, or school administrators...
Teacher Leadership
The «New» Foundations of Teacher Education A Reader Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Teacher leadership as a dimension of teachers’ work has never been more important. This topic has emerged as a major component of both state and national standards, and as such, it is included in most contemporary teacher education programs. Three decades of research have focused on teacher leadership...